Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective
created by Scottish author and physician
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London
-based "consulting detective", Holmes is
famous for his astute logical reasoning, his
ability to take almost any disguise, and his
use of forensic science skills to solve difficult
cases.
Dr. John Watson
known as Dr. Watson, is a character in the
Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle.Watson is Sherlock Holmes's assistan
t and sometime flatmate, and is the first
the Sherlock Holmes canon.
Irene Adler
Irene Adler is a fictional character
featured in the Sherlock Holmes story
"A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, published in July 1891.
She is one of the most notable female
characters in the Sherlock Holmes series
, despite appearing in only one story, and
is frequently used as a romantic interest
for Holmes in derivative works.
Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a
fictional character and the archenemy
of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the
fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Moriarty is a criminal mastermind,
described by Holmes as the "Napoleon
of Crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from
a real Scotland Yard inspector who was
referring to Adam Worth, one of the real
life models of Moriarty. The character of
Moriarty as Holmes' greatest enemy was
introduced primarily as a narrative device
to enable Conan Doyle to kill off Sherlock
Holmes, and only featured directly in two
of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However
, in more recent derivative work he is often
given a greater prominence and treated
as Holmes' primary antagonist.
Mycroft Holmes
Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character
in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle
. He is the elder brother (by seven years)
of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
Mrs. Hudson
Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of
Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering
woman. Not only was her first-floor
flat invaded at all hours by throngs of
singular and often undesirable characters
but her remarkable lodger showed an
eccentricity and irregularity in his life
which must have sorely tried her patience
His incredible untidiness, his addiction to
music at strange hours, his occasional
revolver practice within doors, his weird
and often malodorous scientific experiments,
and the atmosphere of violence and dange
r which hung around him made him the very
worst tenant in London.
Inspector Lestrade
"He is the most famous detective ever
to walk the corridors of Scotland Yard,
yet he existed only in the fertile imagination
of a writer. He was Inspector Lestrade.
We do not know his first name, only his
initial: G. Although he appears thirteen
times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, nothing is known of the life outside the Yard of the detective whom Dr. Watson described unflatteringly as sallow, rat-faced, and dark-eyes and whom Holmes saw as quick
and energetic but wholly conventional
lacking in imagination, and normally out of
his depth—the best of a bad lot who had